NBA Draft

For a brief, flickering moment, it looked like Bowie native Jerian Grant might start his professional basketball career close to home with the Washington Wizards. The Wizards selected the former DeMatha High and Notre Dame guard with the 19th overall pick in the annual NBA Draft on Thursday night. Then, almost immediately, Grant wound up in New York as property of the struggling Knicks, as the result of a three-way trade involving Washington, New York and the Atlanta Hawks. Welcome to the NBA, rookie. The rapid-fire transaction didn't seem to bother Grant, who called the move that landed him in New York "a blessing." "I'm excited about it," he told...

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